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official position
some of the maintainers
I don't think you know what ``official'' means.
which means that there are people holding said infrastructure advances.
Even if it did mean that (which it obviously doesn't), that doesn't imply the conspiracy perpetrated by GPL militants hell-bent on world domination you want to see in it. It's a recognition of the fact that implementing such advances is likely a lot more effort than it's worth, particularly when the current system actually works more than adequately.
The size and importance of the GCC codebase means that fundamental infrastructure decisions can't be rushed in to just because some twit thinks things could be better.
I'm sorry, but the crazy only exists inside your own head.